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      remus
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      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2111174/Intelligent-people-%27less-likely-to-believe-in-God%27.html

      A mildly interesting article, but the comments make up the real meat of the amusement (if you find this sort of thing funny.)

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        dylan
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        The comments provide good reading indeed.
        This is an argument that will go round and round forever 😄

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          kwistenbiebel
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          I have been told the smartest people of all do not open discussions about it. 😉

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            remus
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            Could you clarify the subject of that sentence kwist? 'it' could refer to a few things depending on how you read it.

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              remus
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              a particular gem:

              " 181. Posted by D Fournier on June 13, 2008 08:24 PM

              Academics also believe overwhelmingly in Global Warming. And there's a lot more evidence of the existence of God than there is of Global Warming. Clearly the link between academia and IQ is tenuous, at best."

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                Stinkie
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                @remus said:

                "evidence of the existence of God"

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                Falsifiability - Wikipedia

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                  kwistenbiebel
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                  @remus said:

                  Could you clarify the subject of that sentence kwist? 'it' could refer to a few things depending on how you read it.

                  I was just teasing a bit.
                  'It' as in 'being religious'

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                    ely862me
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                    let s make a difference:to be religious isn t equal with being faithfull 😉

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                      RayOchoa
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                      @unknownuser said:

                      @remus said:

                      "evidence of the existence of God"

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                      Falsifiability - Wikipedia

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                      (en.wikipedia.org)

                      That falsigiability thing makes my brain hurt ouch!

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                        Stinkie
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                        ... as it would've mine when I was your age. 😉

                        This is from one of the comments following the article: "It seems 62% of Americans still believe in 'The devil'.

                        That ain't true, is it? ❓ Can't be! 😲

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                          andyc
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                          @unknownuser said:

                          ... as it would've mine when I was your age. 😉

                          This is from one of the comments following the article: "It seems 62% of Americans still believe in 'The devil'.

                          That ain't true, is it? ❓ Can't be! 😲

                          Afraid to say I've heard a similar statistic.

                          Kinda goes hand-in-hand with belief in God I suppose... 😉

                          Truly worrying. 😒

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                            Stinkie
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                            "Kinda goes hand-in-hand with belief in God I suppose... "

                            Does it? I'm not altogether sure. There's plenty of people in Europe who are religious without believing Satan is real. They consider him a mere concept, a ficticious personification of all things evil. (And I think Rome does too, at least officially.)

                            In any case, I thought there were hardly any (adult) people in the West left who think Satan is as real as any of us. 😮

                            Indeed, quite worrying. And utterly strange. To me, this is like hearing the majority of Saudi's believe Donald Duck is real.

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                              cheffey
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                              'Higher IQ=less religious' apparently...

                              that's my excuse for not attending... that and the drinking... 😲

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                                andyc
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                                @unknownuser said:

                                There's plenty of people in Europe who are religious without believing Satan is real. They consider him a mere concept, a ficticious personification of all things evil. (And I think Rome does too, at least officially.)

                                Really? That's interesting. How long before Rome reclassifies God as a 'ficticious personification of all things good' I wonder. 😒

                                I do find it utterly baffling that people who, in every other aspect of their lives appear to be normal, intelligent, well-adjusted rational individuals (often, frighteningly, in positions of influence and responsibilty) can still subscribe to all this nonsense.

                                Ho hum.

                                A.

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                                  Stinkie
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                                  @andyc said:

                                  Really? That's interesting. How long before Rome reclassifies God as a 'ficticious personification of all things good' I wonder. 😒

                                  What can I say? Them boys in the Vatican are a creative bunch.

                                  @andyc said:

                                  I do find it utterly baffling that people who, in every other aspect of their lives appear to be normal, intelligent, well-adjusted rational individuals (often, frighteningly, in positions of influence and responsibilty) can still subscribe to all this nonsense.

                                  Well ... so do I. I see parallels between firmly believing some omnipotent being is watching you all the time and, errr, paranoid schizophrenia.

                                  Mind you, I am, on the other hand, all for freedom of religion. If Rome can persist in two diametrically opposed views, so can I! 💚

                                  Now, I may be an atheist myself, but I'm fairly certain atheism will not 'win'. The promise of an afterlife is, I believe, quite the unique selling proposition.

                                  To sum up my own thoughts on religion: weird, but ultimately I have no problem with it. You think God looks after you? Good for you! What I do have a problem with, however, is the entanglement of religion and politics. It's a growing trend, I think, in various parts of the world. In the US especially, the religous right seems to be gaining a lot of momentum.

                                  That, quite frankly, scares the cr*p out of me. (For once, I am NOT being ironic.)

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                                    andyc
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                                    @unknownuser said:

                                    To sum up my own thoughts on religion: weird, but ultimately I have no problem with it. You think God looks after you? Good for you! What I do have a problem with, however, is the entanglement of religion and politics. It's a growing trend, I think, in various parts of the world. In the US especially, the religous right seems to be gaining a lot of momentum.

                                    That, quite frankly, scares the cr*p out of me. (For once, I am NOT being ironic.)

                                    Amen, brother 😎

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                                      Stinkie
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                                      I think I should elaborate a bit on how scared exactly: imagine being locked into a room. There's two chairs, in opposite corners. You're sitting on one of them.

                                      In the other corner, sitting on the second chair, there's good ol' Mike Tyson. You know someone told him you ran over his cat. Mike's been angrily eying you for some time now, while getting all juiced up on Jack Daniel's and crystal meth.

                                      Apart from all of this, you have to tell your parents you flunked maths - yet again.

                                      That kind of scared.

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                                        cheffey
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                                        i dunno stinkie, a drunken older Mike isn't that scary. i say take the bottle of jack and knock him out. Then when it comes time for telling the parents about the math grades make note of the fact that hey, you may not be able to calculate an integral but you were able to knock out Mike Tyson.
                                        you know end it on a positive.

                                        Big ass bombs, mishandled food supply & fanatical ideologs are much more scary.

                                        Now if it were Mike circa 1988 then yes that is more scary.

                                        BROSRŌMAN BRÄUN

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                                          remus
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                                          joins stinkie in the fight against mike

                                          I also find it very annoying when people try and use religion to make them sound victimised.

                                          Case in point: those cartoons of Mohamed. Theyre cartoons for gods ( 😛 ) sake! Theyre designed to take the piss out of stuff. why cant people find it in themselves to not threaten to kill each other whenever something that offends them occurs.

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                                            Stinkie
                                            last edited by

                                            @cheffey said:

                                            i dunno stinkie, a drunken older Mike isn't that scary. i say take the bottle of jack and knock him out. Then when it comes time for telling the parents about the math grades make note of the fact that hey, you may not be able to calculate an integral but you were able to knock out Mike Tyson.
                                            you know end it on a positive.

                                            Good point. 😄

                                            I should add, I feel, that I'm not, for once 💚 , trying my best to insult the American members of this forum. Far from it. I'm trying to convey that, outside of the US, fear is slowly rising. At least to me and my peers it seems that christian fundamentalists are slowly but quite steadily growing in power. This may very well widen the divide between the US and the rest of the world even more. Not a good thing. Could cause serious trouble.

                                            We need common ground. And religion ain't gonna be it.

                                            @remus said:

                                            Case in point: those cartoons of Mohamed. Theyre cartoons for gods ( 😛 ) sake! Theyre designed to take the piss out of stuff. why cant people find it in themselves to not threaten to kill each other whenever something that offends them occurs.

                                            Ideologies, be it political or religious ones, make people go bonkers.

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